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French tourism is enjoying a boom thanks to the Rugby World Cup, with hundreds of thousands of rugby fans filling top-end hotels and proving wealthier and better behaved than the average soccer supporter. France Tourism Minister Luc Chatel said an estimated 350 000 foreign fans and their families would be drawn to France during the six-week tournament, which ends on October 20.
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Turin’s bid to rebrand itself as a tourist destination reached a climax with the opening of the Venaria Reale, an exquisite Baroque palace that has been compared with Versailles. The former residence of Italy’s Savoy royal family is Europe’s biggest cultural restoration project and officials hope it will add further gloss to the northern city that hosted the 2006 Winter Olympics.
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Airbus on Monday delivered the first of its A380s, the world’s biggest passenger jet, to Singapore Airlines, 18 months behind schedule but with both sides hailing the major advance in air travel. The 73m-long superjumbo was handed over in a ceremony at the Airbus headquarters in Toulouse in southern France.
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A 20-year-old man who allegedly offered matric exam papers to friends on Facebook was taken into police custody for questioning on Sunday, Primedia Broadcasting said. Captain Dennis Adriao said that police had received an anonymous SMS tip-off.
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The JSE scraped back into the black as firmer metal prices outweighed a firmer rand, creating support for the local bourse. By noon, the all-share index was 0,28% better, as the gold mining index advanced 1,12%. Resources were up 0,87% and the platinum mining index was 0,18% higher.
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South Africa may have reached the World Cup final, but they will have achieved nothing if they don’t beat England in Saturday’s showdown, said coach Jake White on Sunday following the Springboks’ 37-13 victory over Argentina. The 43-year-old also insisted that the 36-0 walloping of England four weeks ago counted for nothing.
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Ernie Els rejuvenated his stalled career with an emphatic record seventh victory in the final of the World Match-Play Championship on Wentworth’s West Course on Sunday. A combination of inspired putting and creative scrambling saw the South African overwhelm Angel Cabrera of Argentina to claim the million-pound winner’s cheque.
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What South African soccer officials had naively viewed as a formality on Sunday turned into failure as Amaglug-glug went down 3-1 to Ghana’s Black Meteors at the Elwak Stadium in Accra and surrendered all hope of qualifying for next year’s Olympic Games in Beijing.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will arrive in Tehran as planned on Monday evening, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said, after reports about a possible plot to assassinate him during his visit for a Caspian Sea summit. Iran has dismissed as baseless reports of a possible plan to kill Putin, branding the allegation as ”pyschological warfare” calculated by Tehran’s enemies.
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Americans are used to pawning the silverware for a couple of tickets to the Super Bowl or the upcoming World Series, but 500 for a performance of Shakespeare? That is the price set on eBay for a couple of tickets for King Lear, which opens at UCLA’s Royce Hall theatre in Los Angeles on Friday.